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1986: The Drugs Issue: AIDS Rises up the Policy Agenda

1986: The Drugs Issue: AIDS Rises up the Policy Agenda

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4 1986: The Drugs Issue: AIDS Rises up the Policy Agenda

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AIDS in the UK

Author(s):

Virginia Berridge

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Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204725.003.0005

AIDS became a policy issue of the highest priority, indeed it soon became a matter of national emergency. Key members of the AIDS policy community, Philip Mortirner from the PHLS, Harold Gunson from the Blood Transfusion Service, Anthony Pinching and Dr Donald Acheson, travelled to Newcastle to speak. This was an impressive display of concern, as well as a display of the lack of scientific certainty which characterized the area. Local initiatives were important and the establishment of AIDS coordinators in particular was significant for later national policies. Britain had seemed to be firmly set in a mode of penal response at the time AIDS was beginning to spread among drug users. AIDS was subsequently credited with achieving the complete reversal of that policy.

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